childish gambino has released a video and it’s broken the internet

Everyone from Adele to Erykah Badu loves This Is America.

When Childish Gambino dropped the Hiro Murai directed video for This Is America on Sunday morning, you could almost feel the world stop for a moment. So powerful, so potent, so important was the message that the video delivers that we all temporarily stopped auto-scrolling and took an actual minute to take in the many intricate layers of thought that Childish delivers in those forbidding four minutes and four seconds.

A sardonic, sharp, confronting examination of police brutality, race and racism, cultural appropriation, ‘terrorism’, gun ownership and so much more, This Is America has sparked reactions around the world.

Here are some thoughts from the internet on what might be the most important musical release of the year: